The conference will take place at Yale University, on the afternoon of November 7th and on November 8th. The conference program has been set. 

The conference is open to the public, and all are welcome to attend, regardless of institutional or departmental affiliation.


Papers are password protected; please contact lindsay.young@yale.edu for the password.

Conference organizers: Timothy Guinanne, Yale University (timothy.guinnane@yale.edu)

Friday, November 7
 

1:15-1:30pm Opening Remarks
1:30-3:00pm Session A, Religion

JULIA STEPHENS (Yale)
The Possibilities and Predicaments of Islamic Political Economy in India and Pakistan

LATIKA CHAUDHARY (Naval Postgraduate School) and JARED RUBIN (Chapman)
Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States

3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30-5:00pm Session B, Political Economy 

SAUMITRA JHA (Stanford GSB) and RIKHIL BHAVNANI (Wisconsin)
Gandhi’s Gift: Lessons for Peaceful Reform from India’s Struggle for Democracy

LAKSHMI IYER (HBS) and GUILHEM CASSAN (Namur)
Partial Democratization and Development: Evidence from Colonial India

Saturday, November 8
 

9:15-10:00am Breakfast
10:15-11:45am Session C, Agriculture

ANAND SWAMY (Williams)
Unfree Labor: Did Indenture Reduce Labor Supply to Tea Plantations in Assam?

SHAMEEL AHMAD (Yale)
Pressed Hard Against the Limits: Weather and Vital Rates in the Madras Presidency, 1871-1931

12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:30pm Session D, Demography

DAVE DONALDSON (Stanford) and DANIEL KENISTON (Yale)
How Positive Was the Positive Check? Investment and Fertility in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza in India

GUILHEM CASSAN (Namur), VIKTORIA HNATKOVSKA (UBC), and AMARTYA LAHIRI
Caste and Network in Colonial India

2:30-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:30pm Session E, Growth

DAN BOGART (UCI) and LATIKA CHAUDHARY (Naval Postgraduate Institute)
The Growth Contribution of Colonial Indian Railways in Comparative Perspective

BISHNUPRIYA GUPTA (Warwick) and TETSUJI OKAZAKI (Tokyo)
When did Japan Overtake India? Lessons from Cotton Mills

Other Research of Conference Participants
 

CHINMAY TUMBE
The Great Indian Migration Wave, 1870-2010: Persistence and Consequences